Campus Ministry

A Successful Retreat for the Class of 2018

Just this past Wednesday, the 6th of April, the class of 2018 embarked on a trip to Camp Copass for a memorable experience with their Jesuit brothers. There were many students and faculty members that spoke to the crowd...

Taking the Next Step: The Junior Retreat

When graduates look back on their time at Jesuit and the events that formed them into men for others, they surely remember the Junior Retreat and Cross Mass, a time-honored tradition at Jesuit. On March 23, this year’s juniors...

What’s Your Vocation?

Have you ever seriously thought about becoming a priest? The notion might not have ever crossed the teenaged mind of many Jesuit students, but, different from them, Quang D. Tran SJ already discerned his vocation and hoped to guide...

The Art of Failure

Your teacher stoically hands back your test face down on your desk to hide your grade, because he knows that nobody would want to be seen with a score that awful. Even upside down, you can easily see the red ink...

Ash Wednesday: Shameful or Glorious?

"For you were made from dust, and to dust you shall return..." Genesis 3:19 Unlike a normal Wednesday at Jesuit College Preparatory School, the students, faculty, and guests all solemnly filed into the Terry Center to celebrate the Mass of...

New Jesuits Watch Over our Halls

Hanging stoically over students passing through the hallway between the senior and prayer courtyards, twelve new banners display the names and lifespans of the earliest Jesuits. Among these banners, two feature portraits of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits,...

Jesuit Rejoices in Celebrating the First School Mass of 2016

Will Aberger '17 sits eagerly in the Terry Center, waiting to celebrate the first school Mass of 2016.  Surrounded by Jesuit students, he looks down the center aisle to see Fr. Wally Sidney, S.J. lead the procession to the altar,...

The Immaculate (Mis)Conception

On December 8, 2015, every available Jesuit student strolled into the Terry Center to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, one of the ten Holy Days of Obligation. Father Ron Boudreaux began the Mass by addressing one of the...

The 33rd Week of Ordinary Time Mass Is Anything But

The Terry Center, filled with Jesuit Dallas and Strake students, teachers, and guests, sit in anticipation for the mass said by Father Carlos Esparza S.J., class of '98. Father Esparza's return to Jesuit is preceded by working with the...